Job Summary

Group Resilience is responsible for driving and delivering the Banks resilience capabilities spanning operational resilience, operational continuity in resolution, technology resilience, business continuity management and crisis management across the Bank.  
We partner with our businesses and across both lines of defence to define and manage the Banks most important business services (IBS), enabling product and segment CEOs to set impact tolerances thresholds for those services and ensures the operational assets which support them are built, maintained, and changed in BAU with resilient service in mind and that the Bank can continue to provide those services during crisis.

The role holder will be responsible for scenario testing and vulnerability management practices for Operational Resilience, and partner and collaborate across the Bank to grow the maturity of the Group’s pan-bank scenario testing programme to enable SCB to continue to assess risk and associated mitigation strategies along with being responsible for the end-to-end process for scenario testing. The role holder will then support how vulnerabilities identified through scenario testing and other vulnerability assessment methods are managed through to remediation.  

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the scenario testing practices within Group Operational Resilience.
• Manage the identification, planning, execution, lessons learnt, vulnerability identification and management and reporting or scenario testing across severe but plausible scenarios.
• Manage and maintain SCB’s testing catalogue and threat landscape, working with appropriate RFO’s.
• Undertake horizon scanning to identify potential threats to the Bank and to learn from events impacting other financial institutions.
• Co-ordinate and plan scenario testing across the Bank to ensure alignment and efficiencies across testing within other areas of the Bank (e.g. Cyber, Technology, Risk and Crisis)
• Ensure effectiveness of scenario testing is in line with the Groups’ Operational Resilience Standard.
• Manage updates to risk committees relating to testing activities for Operational Resilience.
• Responsible for the assessment and validation of potential vulnerabilities that may threaten SCB’s ability to remain within impact tolerances.
• Ensure reporting and tracking of management information related to operational resilience vulnerabilities is accurate and clearly presented.
• Engage with Risk Management and vulnerability owners to assess the status of remediation activities and any delivery risks that require escalation. 

Skills and Experience

• Relevant experience in Risk, Technology, Resilience, or Security in Banking and Financial services. 
• Minimum 2-3 years of scenario testing experience. 
• A higher education degree in IT, Finance is preferred.
• Subject matter expert of emerging Operational Resilience regulations and best practices. 
• In-depth knowledge of Business and Functions and its supporting process and systems.
• Strong knowledge of resilience and risk frameworks, principles, architecture.
• Strong risk management experience.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, across various levels in the organization including senior leadership teams, in influencing key decisions taken in the Business and Functions.
• Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation.
• Must be a self-starter who is able to initiate and successfully drive programs and projects to completion with little or no management supervision.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to prioritise, make decisions, and work to tight timeframes.
• Proven ability to lead highly complex, global activities through influence and credibility rather than command and control.
• Ability to both assess strategic priorities and to focus on detailed aspects of a function to drive effective delivery.
• Strong integrity, independence, and resilience
• Business Continuity Management related certification (BCI, DRI etc.) will be an asset. 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.